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Jeff Jarvis interviews teens in New York on their use of Social Media. They're massively into Facebook Twitter not so much. He suggests they use the net to connect, us older folks are still thinking publishing. "I see the Wall — as I think others my age do — as a place to publish or broadcast; we instinctively see it as media. So Twitter fits our reflex; Facebook theirs. But I think the young people are making use of the internet that is truer to its nature: It is not a medium but is a connector"
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"Info-monopolies tend to be good-to-great in the short term and bad-to-terrible in the long term." via @BoingBoing
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Skype launch a directory to match teachers with students for online learning. Could be the start of something big. HT @monkchips
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Matt Taibbi uncovers the extraordinary mess surrounding the foreclosure crisis in America. It's extraordinary how a financial system can lead to people treating others like this.
Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in
21 February 2021
